NSCFC says family breakdown is top issue for young people.

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The National Society for Children and Family Contact (NSCFC) can reveal a recent US survey found that young people “ranked family breakdown and violence as the most pressing issues of their generation. Poverty was third and global warming fourth. Politicians need to note these concerns if they really want young people’s votes. African-American and Latino youths said violence in their neighborhoods was their No. 1 concern while white and Asian youths put the family breakdown at the top.” The findings are remarkable. David Cameron is trying to put family breakdown on the political agenda here in the UK, but the press and media studiously resort to tax cuts, global warming, violence, the NHS, education and – sometimes – poverty as the leading issues. Family breakdown is taboo. The Social Exclusion Unit named eight indicators of deprivation, one of which was family breakdown. The Office for National Statistics publishes neighbourhood figures and indices for seven of these, but omits family breakdown. Relevant information is being suppressed and no one is complaining about it, not even our Bishops, despite the claim of Archbishop Rowan Williams that the C of E will engage more in human issues “in accordance with Christ’s teachings we had hoped and not mans” but alas to date they too have been found wanting by sheer lack of scriptural application and begs the question why is this subject of so little importance to the men of cloth? What will it take for someone to replicate this survey in the UK and rattle a few cages at the SEU and ONS and a bench in the House of Lords, indeed should it be left to the Daily Mail and the Telegraph who stand virtually alone when speaking out on such important issues? 40% of all children in our schools are now from one parent families, only yesterday the Social Services phoned the NSCFC to discuss the crisis this is causing in schools and how best to deal with it. Children need role models yet good wholesome fathers are being removed from their lives at the stroke of a pen after separation or divorce. Schools and society see the effect in dysfunctional youth but really is it no wonder they go off the rails when both politicians and religious leaders alike refuse to address the root cause?